Cat Power Quotes & Sayings

“Life is hard and it gets worse and worse and worse.”

“There's just a lot of stuff that really moves me, and I don't know how to express it, and I just want to try to do the best I can and surround myself with good people who don't invalidate me.”

“I got more guts than brains, and that's my problem.”

“I think the hardest thing about my life is that I've met so many people all over the world who I love, but they're not friends with each other.”

“I've never had a clique. It's impossible when you're always traveling.”

“We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.”

“I got told so many times I needed a manager. For a long time I resisted, and I finally got one so I can pay my mortgage, and it helped me from becoming a homeless person.”

“From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.”

“I am human and I make mistakes.”

“I don't come from money or an educated family background or any sort of supportive family life, so all of my choices are made on my own.”